Monday, October 26, 2015

Cork Print Spiders

Last year we were given a very large bag of corks, and it's been fun to think of different ways to use them. In honor of Halloween, and because we've enjoyed other spider projects this fall, we decided to try cork print spiders.

This also proved to be another great, after school project for Big Brother one weekday.

Materials:

Corks (two different sizes works best)

Black ink pad

Black permanent marker

Silver permanent marker

Paper

Press the larger cork onto the pad and then stamp onto the paper. The first few times it is used the cork needs to be pressed more firmly onto the ink pad so that it can absorb the ink.

After stamping the larger cork a few times, repeat the same process with the smaller stamp. This time, print the smaller cork circle so it is attached to one of the larger prints, which makes the head of the spider.

Next, use the permanent marker to create eight legs.

We also liked using a silver permanent marker to create spider webs and a few other small details.

We kept our spiders just as a picture, but these could make cute Halloween cards or bookmarks too. They wound up having a really cool textured design!